Traveling-bag.



B. URBAND.

TRAVELING BAG.

APPLICATIONA FILED 1AH.17, 191e.

Patented Sept. 3, 1918,

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BERNHARD URRAND, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

'rRAVELINe-BAG.

Specification of LettersL Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1918.

i Application filedv January 17,1918. Serial No. 212,218.

To all whom it may concern:

ABe it known that I, BERNHARD URBAND, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at New York city, Bronx county, State of New York,-have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Traveling- Baigs,of which the following is a full','clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in identification tabs fortraveling bags, suit-cases and the like, the object ofthe in- `ventionbeing to provide a tab having a pocket to receive a card containing theaddress of the owner of the satchel or the like or any other indicationof ownership, and in combination with the tab, I provide a protectingcover for the tab, the tab and its cover preferably consisting of (inthis instance) two separate and distinct elements which` are secured,independently of each other, to their respective separably connectedsatchel-members.V The tab and its cover are preferably secured, at oneend thereof, to their respective separably con nected members adjacentthe lock for said members, and at opposite sides thereof. When the taband its cover are secured together, the said cover will overlap thelock; hence said lock cannot be reached for the insertion of a key andthe metal of the lock will be protected against rain and injury. The taband its cover, can be used to separate the separably connected satchelmembers after they have been unlocked.

I will now proceed to describe my inveir tion in detail, the novelfeatures of which I will point out in the appended claims, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a portion of a bag or satchel embodying my improvement Fig. 2 isa cross sectional view thereof, the tab and its cover being illustratedas connected; and

Fig'.` 3 is a plan view of the device as illustrated in Fig. 1,thetab-cover being broken off.

In Fig. 1 the numerals d and 5 indicate the separably connected membersof a Lsatchel or the like, provided with a look 6 to connect same. Thenumeral 7 indicates a tab consisting of (in this instance) twolaminations or members 8 and 9 stitched together at 10 to provide apocketll to receive a card 12 or'the like. The tab 7 is provided, at

one end, with a member 13 of a fastening device, a snap-socket forinstance, the opposite end of said tab being securedr to the satchelmember 5, as at 14, by sewing, riveting or otherwise. The other elementof my improvement consists of a cover 15 having at. one end afastening-member 16 to cooperate with the member 13, a button forinstance. The opposite end of the cover 15 is secured in any Ldesirablemanner to the satchel-member 4.

It will be seen that the tab and cover are separate membersindependently secured to the satchel. As can be seen in Fig. 2, thecover 15 will overlap and concealthe lock 6 when said cover 15 and tab 7are secured together. When positioned as indicated in Fig. 1, the taband its cover may be used as handles to pull the satchel members 4 and 5apart, after they have been unlocked. The cover 15 also serves toprotect the identification card or its transparent covering 18. Whenroughly handled or packed with other articles, the identifyingcards,.usually employed, become damaged 0r entirely destroyed, for thereason that they are not protected and are usually rigidly secured tothe bags or satchels. As the tab 7 is more or less flexible, it will, toa large extent, resist rough handling, as it will yield, should it comein contact with other articles, espe cially if the satchel is tossedinto a car or baggage-room or upon a truck.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In combination with a bag or the like, a flexible identification tabsecured at one end thereof toy one of the separably connected members ofthe bag, and a flexible cover secured at one end thereof to the othermember of the bag, and means to secure the identification tab and itscover together, the identification tab and the cover therefor when`separated also serving as handles to pull the bag-members apart.

2.7In` combination with a bag or the like having separably connectedmembers, a lock to secure said members together, a flexibleidentification tab secured, at one end thereof, to one of said bagmembers at one side of the lock therefor, a cover for the lock and tab,secured at one end thereof to the other bag member at the opposite sideof the lock, and means to secure .the identification tab and its covertogether, said cover being arranged to overlap the lock when secured tosaid tab.

3. In combination with a bag having separably connected members, 'alook'therefor, an identification element Carried by one oi' saidmembers, a Cover eommon to the look and identification element Carriedby theV other bagdnember,v and means to detach# ably secure theidentilieation element and cover together, the identiieation element andcover also serving as handles to pull the bag-members apart.

L1.111 combination With a bag same, aflexible tab secured to one of saidCopies of this patent may be obtained for having'l separably connectedmembers, a lock for Coverbeing arranged to act as handles to separatethe bag members when said tab and its cover are disconnected and the bagmembersnare unlocked.

Signed at NevT York city, N. Y., this 15 day of January, 1918.

BERNHARD URBAND. Vitnesses EDWARD A. JARVIS, MAURICE BLOCK.

ive crents each, by addressingihe Commissioner of Patents, Washington,D. C."

